Junior Match Reports Week 4

Sunday 06 MAY 2018

On Sunday our Tooradin boys took on Nar Nar Goon at their home ground, so far Nar Nar Goon has been the best team we have played this season and definitely had our boys working very hard out on the field today, even with the challenge Blake Howlett, Tate Jagoe and Jack Rudeforth kicked some great goals and Cooper Brown and Kai Reeve a point each.

Round 4 saw the seagulls take to field ready for a tough game, we trained hard this week and had some key factors and tactics to put in place come game day. What an amazing team effort, we talked to team mates looked down field and tackled hard. Kane Angleton and Jack Alexander were outstanding as was Annie Holloway kicking 2 goals. Riley Peck showed that no ball was too hard to mark and is a massive contender for mark of the year. (Champion). Great work Seagulls.

On Sunday our boys took on Beaconsfield at home. With both teams undefeated this year and on a bigger ground, it was an awesome game from both teams. Displaying a great team effort our boys kept their winning streak going winning 4.3.27 to Beaconsfield 2.5.17.

This week our under 12’s took on Koo Wee Rup at home. On a beautiful sunny afternoon at Rutter Park we had some amazing achievements with 4 of our players celebrating their 50 game milestone. Congratulations to Foti Ploudias, Mason Dicks, Hunter Cairns and Jesse Sumner.

We got away to a fast start kicking 3 goals to 0 but unfortunately the boys fell asleep and struggled to impact on the scoreboard after quarter time. The boys have shown they are good enough to mix it with the best of them but need to believe in themselves and back their abilities and not leave it to the few ones who consistently perform week in week out. Thanks to Jack Mannix for helping us out. Goal kickers with 1 goal each were Hunter Cairns, Brodie Alsemgeest and Foti Ploudias.

On Sunday our under 14’s took on Koo Wee Rup at home. We knew this was going to be a hard game with Koo Wee Rup being a very strong team.

Although the score didn’t reflect the game the boys played well as a team, strong tackles and some really great passages of play. Jayden Govaars kicking our only goal for the game. Coach Paul Ray was happy with the boys’ effort and had some positive words at the end of the game although we didn’t get the win. If all train well and play like they want to be out there, then the win will eventually come for us and that’s what the boys need to keep in the back on their mind.

We ventured down to Pakenham on Sunday to take on the boys of Pakenham Blue.

Unfortunately we only fielded 17 players; however the boys still managed to put in a good strong performance and come away with a strong win.

Without an interchange bench they still managed to play strong footy right to the final siren, an amazing effort. It was a good strong all round performance by the Tooradin boys. They worked amazingly well as a team and everyone played a great role in sealing our second win.

Some amazing kicking skills from our forwards with Max Kendell being our highest goal scorer, followed by some great kicking by Luke Townsend, between them kicking 9 goals of our 12.